09/2018

As previously announced, we will be begin to validate request payloads more strictly in the REST API starting on November 1, 2018. You can opt into the new validations by…

The review summary text area for pull requests has been changed to include a preview tab as well as a text editing toolbar. This will give you more confidence in…

Sometimes you need to mention yourself in a comment. The mention dropdown will now include yourself so you can easily autocomplete your username in comments. Learn more about mentioning people…

The 2.14.6, 2.13.12, and 2.12.20 releases for GitHub Enterprise are now available for download. View the full release notes: See Enterprise 2.14.6 release notes See Enterprise 2.13.12 release notes See…

The system calculating the outdating of code review comments has been updated to a more precise method such that the exact line of code that anchors the comment must change…

On November 1, 2018 we will begin to validate request payloads more strictly. Calls that previously returned a 2xx success code, may return a 422 Unprocessable Entity. Learn more

All consecutive duplicate comments in discussion threads are now hidden by default. This means that threads with numerous, duplicate emoji or +1s will now become shorter to read. To view…

The permissions for Resolvable Conversations have been updated such that only the pull request author or users with write access to the repository have the ability to resolve the conversation.…

This creates the ability to do a direct “two dot” comparison between two commits. Now you can easily see the differences between two commits without comparing from their common merge…

Sometimes a conversation in an issue or a pull request can move off in a tangental direction. Now you can click Open new issue within the comment’s options menu to…

The release of GitHub Desktop 1.4 includes two important improvements: You’ll now know before you click “Merge” whether you’re going to encounter merge conflicts between the branches you’re merging. You’ll…

The 2.14.5, 2.13.11, 2.12.19, and 2.11.25 releases for GitHub Enterprise are now available for download. View the full release notes: See Enterprise 2.14.5 release notes See Enterprise 2.13.11 release notes…

You can now quote comments in issues and pull requests by choosing Quote reply from the comment’s options menu. This will paste quoted contents of the comment into the text…

The S/MIME standard describes how emails can be digitally signed using PKI certificates. Git recently gained the ability to understand S/MIME signatures, providing a method of Git signing that is…

When you push a new branch to GitHub from the command line, you’ll now notice a URL within the output which you can copy in order to quickly open a…